F1 Wheelbases | Merc go long, Red Bull go short 

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for the record I wasn't alive in 1977 and never saw Led Zepellin...

As a bus driver who only recently passed my test I can confirm that this steering phenomenon is indeed very weird.

I can't wait for 2022, because the current "long boys" are ridiculously long. I like cars that have short wheel bases.

Long story short; Red Bull cost themselves so much years in catching Merc by making their car smaller while Mercs make their car bigger.

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I liked the old menu system on the F1 2011 game where selecting the car you could visually see the difference of the car lengths

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Anyone else feel like the cars should be even shorter than the new rule changes? Reminds me of hockey and how goalies and their pads keep getting bigger so scoring has been going down forever, much like overtakes in f1

With all these regulations at play, I often wonder what the teams would come up with if there were only safety-related regulations and nothing else

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You may need to check your math on the fuel capacity. In 2014, they had 100kg of fuel, which is more than 100L, since the density of gasoline is 0.7-85 ...

Thank you for this informative video. Keep up the good work.

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So this is why Red Bull has more oversteer

@chain bear, why has FIA restricted wheelbase length for 2022? Is it just another one of those random rulings like can't change helmets in a season, or is there some reasoning for this?

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Hey Chain Bear, love your vids. Been watching F1 for 40 years, and just recently have heard lots of radio chatter with a yellow flag or end of race where the engineer tells the driver "keep the delta positive"... can you plz do a vid explaining what this is about?

Merc go long, 🔥 Red Bull-Honda go short, ⚡️ Ferarri go monkey 🐒

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this video starts at 0:53

Mercedes is just trying to avoid a 1955? 95? I don't know, when their cars flipped at Le Mans

What is the purpose of mandating weight distribution?

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Lol these engines aren’t powered by petrol anymore

damn 1 minute in and the video hasnt started yet hahaha

I'm a bus driver, not only do you sit far forward of the front axle, but you also have to be aware that your rear overhang will swing in the opposite direction, and with the width of the vehicle and length of overhang in mind, this could encroach upon the neighbouring lane or pavement/sidewalk. On top of that the tighter arc driven by the rear axle is massively exaggerated. In a car, provided you get the front around a bend, you can be pretty sure the rear will follow, but in a long vehicle, you not only have to 'pass' your turn before you steer, but you have to be aware of the arc your rear wheels will follow to avoid cutting the corner. So at the back you have to worry about your wheels cutting too tight and your tail swinging too wide simultaneously. And all this is happening 30 feet behind you.

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Lmao, last time I recall Mercedes opting for s shorter wheel base... they were flipping left right and center around Le Mans

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Another well-explained topic, I learned something.

Chain bear, something went wrong here at 2:58 you show 2014 as 69 litres for 100kg of fuel and for 2019 76L for 110kg. You multiplied rather than divided! Silly you! It should actually be closer to 128L and 141L respectively!

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2:57: values for 2014 and 2019 are wrong (you multiplied by the density instead of dividing)

Mercedes are just compensating

1:00 real start of video!

That 'Friends' reference totally had me. 😂

F1 shouldn't only push towards shorter wheelbases for better racing but also smaller width and lighter cars.

Something tells me well be seeing more fuel cell regs after grosjeans near death experience on Sunday

I’m all for tenuously in steering Wallace and Gromit clips

Are you sure about the fuel tank being only 76L? i remember they increased to 110kg and the fuel density is 680kg/m*cubic, and that would give us a 161.8L fuel tank, which is a big improve compared to V8 if you keep in mind that these engine produce more power. But 76L seems ridiculously low.

3:00 shouldn’t the fuel tanks be about 150 Liters in Volume for the 2019 season? 110 kg of petrol takes up about 150 Liters and I can’t imagine that F1 fuel is twice as dense.

A shame that Ferrari changed from a short wheelbase of 2017 to a longer wheelbase from 2018 onwards, their 2017 car looked so nimble and beautiful to look at imo

As a bus driver, I never expected to see an explanation of bus wheelbases in one of your videos! Its true, and kinda weird the first few times you are turning and sitting over a pavement. I was always told - overshoot then oversteer ;)

2022 Other team wheelbase: 3500-3580mm Merc wheelbase: 3601mm for good measure.

Starts at 1:00, you're welcome

5:45 expected the "PIVOT" reference to Friends cos that's what was going on in my head as soon as I saw the turning sofa animations :D 5:50 did he just throw in a tongue-in-cheek reference to "Dark" there with the "22 years" and "22 years years before that" comment!

F1 should not be regulating the weight distribution of the cars. If McLaren wants to run a 60/40 or if Williams wants to run a 40/60 split, then let them. Would love to see teams be able to decide for themselves if each engine layout works.

I might have misunderstood the video, but I think longer wheelbases don't actually allow longer diffusers because of the regulations limiting where the floor must be flat and how far behind the rear wheels a diffuser can go. (Technical Regulations 3.7.1 and 3.7.7)

will this new maximum well base restriction help red bull a lot? As i see it they only need to go down by 20mm to meet that threshod, and thus their car is almost unchanged. However for merc, they might have chage a lot of things, becuase as you said in the viddo, may things effect wheel base lenght.

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I can't wait for your video breaking down how Grosjean survived that crash.

Hopefully they Will shorter more The cars!!!

Great video! About a decade ago Merc had a noticeably smaller wheelbase than virtually everyone else, with RB standing out with its extreme length and rake. I'd say that Merc was just about the right length aesthetically. Here's a random #2022 question. Should we read much into the fact that that none of the 2022 concept drawings so far feature a DRS mechanism? PS: did you catch Jimmy on a good night? In 1977 his performances were often, as Brundle would put it, scruffy! Check out my cover of The Rain Song on my channel.

That 1977 reference was top class

Longer cars have a likeliness to S🅱in you mean? Ferrari: SOMEBODY WRITE THAT DOWN!

"Without compromising packages or safety structures" No clue how relevant that safety structure comment was gonna be, huh?

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Your animation game has always been on-point, but damn it just keeps getting better. I know that many of us are more visual learners, so it helps tremendously to understand exactly what you're talking about!

Strange merc have the tightest packing, spilling the turbo in half amongst other things yet produced the longest car (and the most successful) with redbull trying their best for tight packaging, producing the shortest car and not being remotely close to the mercs, it’s almost like if you give your parts room to breath the don’t break all the time and go much faster, but what would I know I’m not the lord and saviour of all things downforce Adrian newey, it’s almost like if red bull weren’t so set on the tightest coke bottle in the game rear end, their car might you know work? As apposed to Honda electrical issues and packing a middling Renault engine to the point it goes boom every 25 minutes? How many problems have redbull handed them selfs from packaging a car too tightly? How many dnf do Renault and mclaren have due to a blow time bomb Renault engine?? Considerable less than red bull had with the v6 hybrid, open the rear of the car more, take the longer sidepods, the slightly more open rear and longer engine cover, and create what the car and addy wants from it, downforce, a new T wing, a monkey seat, a more open slightly longer defuser and redesigned sidepods and the rb16 would be pushing Lewis and stopping the electric problems that have plagued max and to a lesser extent Alex all year, and when they inevitably end up back with Renault power again in 2022 the car wouldn’t over heat and go bang, and redbull would have a more successful campaign, I’m not the lord and saviour of all downforce like addy but these are just some problems anyone with any sort aeronautic understanding could see from the outside and fix

Isn't the measurement for KG to L exactly the other way around from how you show it? 1 liter of petrol is 720 grams, so for 110 kg it'd be about 152 liters and not the 79 you listed.

I am now waiting for the Grosjean crash video.

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Was hoping for a video on this :)

Short and sharp. Nice one....I was alive in 1977...but I didn't see Led Zeppelin either.

So if you ask me I would consider Red bull to have an advantage for 2022 knowing that they are used to shorter cars

Smaller and lighter cars is what will bring good and proper racing back imo but we can’t slack on safety if the cars get smaller especially after the crash last weekend

So you didn't mention the main advantage of a longer wheelbase - the car is much harder to overtake. I guarantee you this.

Could we get a video on the Grosean crash at Bahrain?

Please do something about fire proofing of the suits or something. Because of romains crash

Let's speak English: Mercedes goes long, Red Bull goes short.

The reason why merc go long is because they didnt like the last time they had a short wheel base

After watching Romain´s crash today, can you do a video on safety?

The more I learn about f1 rules the more I hate the f1 governing bodies. So much for f1 being the pinnacle of technology...

Not sure I agree with you points on F1 wheel base, if you search you will find a study done on F1 car to see if there was any relationship to shorter wheel base cars wining more on tight track. The author concluded there was no relationship wheel base and ability to get around a tight corner. Therefor some of your assumptions are incorrect when it comes to F1 cars.

I feel the current power unit is the biggest problem with shorter cars and we unfortunately won't get any major change in that area until the new power units come in, but hopefully the 2022 aero will help enough we won't really care about how the next power unites effect the size of the cars.

This is the only channel that explains things in a smart enough way to make me feel like I’ve learned something while also not dumbing everything down to where I still don’t know what I came here to learn

today's cars are too big, they're butt ugly

Chain bear, So I happen to have experience driving both supertankers and fire truck (which like busses, tend to hang over both ends) so I though your analogies are good.

Shame with the new rules the wheelbase is still far too long and the cars will still be far too long as well.

Goes long, goes short. English please.

If they can't make the cars significantly smaller to allow for better racing they should just make the tracks wider, I've had enough of drivers just pushing each other out. Whenever the drivers leave each other space through a sequence of corners it produces amazing battles. Either make the tracks wider or enforce drivers to drive much more fairly with penalties.

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I am actually impressed that F1 Car actually only need 76 L to cover 300 KM. That's almost 4Km/L. Not that bad for 300 Km/h car

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that orange longboi tho

As soon as I saw the two couches approaching corners I knew what was coming..

Been waiting a long time for this one! Alex Albon was too lol

Great video dude. You always do a great job making stuff that I would never even think of super easy to understand

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I half-expect _F1_ teams that have shorter wheelbases to go slightly longer to recoup some of the 10% of downforce that the 2021 regs are shaving off to help _Pirelli._ Merc, who switched developmental focus to their 2021 car, the presumptive _W12,_ as much as 3 months ago, are rumoured tohave already recouped *all* of the downforce of the _W11._ Since aero is _Newey's_ area of expertise, I expect him to find a way to ace it for the (presumptive) _RB17._ I also hope _McLaren_ and _Ferrari_ ace their aero as it would be a shame to see _Merc_ continue unchallenged. It will be interesting to see just how _Pirelli's_ locked-in tyre designs stand up to the downforce levels attained by the 2021 challengers.

Why do people want shorter cars, I would rather have big powerful monsters racing on f1 tracks instead of convertible looking toys.

Do you have data for the 2020 car? I feel a comparison with Ferrari is also necessary for this topic. Or, more importantly, the RP vs. Merc (2019 vs. 2020)

Force them to use more sidepod!! Plenty of empty floor outside the sidepods. Wouldn't the shorter WB cause less stability & show fans the better drivers? Wouldn't wider sidepods cause compromised packaging/aero & show us the better designers? Isn't that what the sport is all about?

Density of petrol is roughly 0,8 kg/l Which would make a 105kg tank hold roughly 130Liters of fuel.